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The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-03-26
BRAIN WEIGHTS.
The Human Organ Heavier Than That of
Any of the Lower Animals.

The average weight of the brain in
men is AZ ounces, and in women some
four or five Ounces less; the human or
gan being absolutely heavier than that
of any of the lower animals except the
elephant and the whale, with brains
Of ten and five pounds respectively.
As a rule, mental capacity and the size
of the brain quite closely corresponds;
and it has been observed that a Brain
weight of less than - ounces in an
adult person is always accompanied by
a defective intellect. The rule has its
exceptions, however, n notable II
being that of Gambctta, the small
weight Of whose brain, less than Al
ounces. is attracting the attention Of
French anthropologists. A contrasting
case has recently been furnished in au
idiot with Il brain of IS ounces. Famil-
lar great brains are those of Cuvier and
Webster, each exceeding Ga ounces; of
DR.. Abercrombie, 63 ounces and Of
Duypreten, So! ounces. Descartes,
Raphael and Voltaire had small heads,
while that of Napoleon was only
slightly above the average, and that
of Schiller not ut all. The lightest
brain on record weighed eight ounces
and belonged to an idiot boy. and that
of an idiot IN weighed ten ounces
The average brain of Englishmen is 40
ounces; that of Frcnchmen II little over
As ounces; that of Dutch, Italians,
Swcdes and Lapps comes nearer the
English, while the German brain is
heavier. In India the weight is from
Al to A ounces; in Africa 4S; and in
America 46. -ArkanSam 1"grcler.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-03-26
AMOUNTING THE BODY.
JnunctionIW With Olive Oil "A Remedial Agent
in Case of Consumption.

'" P''""
The practice of amounting the body
with oil is very ancient. 1t prevailed
not only among the Romans, Greeks
and Jews, but throughout Egypt and
the East. In Egypt. and to some y.
tent among the Jews, it was an act Of
hospitality to anoint the head Of each
guest. Among the Jews. the copious
pouring of oil on the heads of high
priests, kings and prophets was n of
the chief ceremonies of induction into
office. Among the Greeks and Romans
Injunction followed bathing, and. in the
case Of the weakly, preceded it. This
prevented the roughness of skin that
would naturally result from a frequent
resort to the bath-and the luxurious
among the later Romans resortcd to it
and bathed several times Il day, Much
of the oil was highly perfum"d. In
one small Roman city an entire street
was lined with ungucnt shops.
Injunction was also generally en-
ploycd for medicinal purposes. The
passage in James V: IA. doubtless
simply means, let prayer to God ac-
company the use Of the ordinary heal
ing remedies. At the present day
there Is a tendency to return to inunc-
ton Us II remedial agent. In case the
skin is dry and scurfy, the process will
fp11,- factnrb tic rptpr,1 cnftpn.., Ero-
quent bathing renders the epidcrmis
thin, and thus unduly exposes the ter
minal nerves; Injunction would relieve
this.
At a well-known sanitarium, inunc.
ton with olive oil was tried twenty
years ago in eases of wasting disease.
The result was so favorable that it has
become a favorite prescription
in various forms of disease. though
in most cases, %cOcoanut oil is now
preferred to olive oil. In an article on
this subject the writer shows that in
JUNCTION has been found to be more sat
isfactory IN its effects when admins.
tered by a strong attendant who is
skilled to rub, rapidly and thoroughly,
the surface Of the body. The oil is
more quickly absorbed, and there seems
to be some value in the mere rubbing.
The practice seems to be especially
suited to cases in which the stomach
and intestinal tract are unable to di-
gest fatty food. 1t has been practiced
with good results in cases of consump.
ton (tuberculosis), attended with great
loss of flesh; innutrition. due to chronic
inflammation of the digestive tract.
From two to six times Il week the APP
plication can be made, according to the
patients power of absorption YOUTHS
Companion.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-03-26
THEY DON'T AGREE.

ru,s rs WHAT HE THINKS OF HER:
n lovely! Her eyes are as blue as
me- dear little flower that shone
,he grass at the end OF the summer
,h,, liz name is I never have known:
her hairs quite unique in this age OF
me- fluffy, with curls bright and crisp;
4 her yoice-why, it's simply delicious
!, hear her sweet infantile lisp;
4 her blush Is divine; and her smile is
h artless that really she seems
me like the angelic maidcns
NAT sometimes we meet IN our dreams.
vn HIS Is WHAT HIS SISTER THINKS:
t~sc,are 7 can see nothing in her
khort rtnglets, like coils Of red wire,
I the smile she's eternally wearing
Fr her baby blue eyes, to admire;
N her lisp. how absurdly IL strikes me
be useless to try to express,
ktItIin that way were afflicted
Ia sbun every word with an 49,"
M IN spite OF her innocent bushes
Ind dimples she can't deceive me,
n know her to be just as artful
As any young woman could be.
-Leslie's Illustrated.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-03-26
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

Better sow ten acres 10 any grain
with all conditions favorable, than
twenty acres but partially prepared II
lacking in fcrtility.-N. \. Witness.
A good hcal,hful diet lra, Il great
deal to do with the prosperity and hap
piness of the farmers household, and a
variety in vegetables is indispensable
to a well supplied table. --4lbany Jom'.
nal.
Mr.. Peter Fay, of Southboro, Mass.
advises eight or ten varieties of apples
in the orchard rather than seventy II
more. He had at one time thirty-iive
sorts of pears which he gradually re-
aucel to tea, ''all that are worth cul-
tivating."
-Thcfarmcr actually rises OF fails in
manhood in proportion as humane
sentiments control him in the treat.
mcnt of his cattle, or harsh or brutal
conduct renders them uncomfortable
and unproductive. and their milk fever
ish and unwholcsome.-Cincjnnn h
Times.
Honey is now being extensively
used in place of sugar in curing hams.
1t is claimed to give a better and sweet.
cr tlavorto meat, and it is believed that
honcy-cured hams will some day take
the place of '~'sugar-cured. '.-Er-
change.
The stock company plan Of buying
Il draft stallion has proved so success
full that it is becoming quito u common
thing for five or ten farmers to unitein
buying a stallion. Some of these re.
port forty, fifty and sixty per cent.
profit annually, besides improving
their horses and benetitting the COM
munity. Troy Times.
1t is suggested that by GOVERN.
horses bits for winter use with brown
muslin Il great deal of suffering may
be prevented. A piece of frosted iron,
put into a horses mouth, will take the
skin off as if it were hot iron: yet care
less owners or their men often subject
the poor brutes to that torturc.-N. l.
Examiner.
The loss of sheep in this country
annually from dogs is very great. As
the dogs are used for sporting purposes
the loss may be still greater increased
by estimating the damage done crops
from insects. due to the destruction of
birds for sport. In some States
stringent protective laws are being
adopted for the protection Of sheep
from dogs, but the loss is still greater
than it should be- Western Rural.
1t is only Il little provendcr that
the fat COW throws from her meal box;
only u few oats that drop through the
horses manger: only a few nubbins Of
corn hat the pigs root out of the
trough; only a lock or two of hay that
the sheep trample under foot at each
feeding; but in the course of time these
little things amount to an enormous
whole. and it is all unnecessary waste,
Prairie Farmer.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-03-26

Love has no middle term; it either
saves or Destroys Victor Hugo.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-06-07
TRAIN TALK.
Items of General Information
for the Especial Benefit of
Railway Men.

"A California telegraph operator
substituted a large section of wire
fence for the telegraph wire lost in a
storm, and the change, it is said,
worked like charm.
The Texas and Pacific has fifteen
locomotives, 400 fat cars and force
of over 800 extra men at work bal.
lasting and relaying the New Orleans
Division. Over 10000 new cross.
ties were put On this division of the
road during the month of May.
j. w. Allen has been appointed
General Agent of the St. Louis, Ar
kansas and Texas, in charge of the
Cincinnati territory, vice Fred Bates,
resigned. Mr.. Allen will also have
temporary charge of the Memphis ter.
ritory, with headquarters at CinCin-
natl.
of all the railroad magnates who
have testified before the Pacific Rail-
road Commission, Russell Sage is said
to be the most nervous, most evasive
and most good-natured; Mr.. Morisini
the coolest and most Hnpumpable, and
Mr.. Willard the most skillful in ap-
pearing to tell frankly all he knows
and saying nothing that can lead him
in a corner.
The Buffalo, New York and
Philadelphia Railway Company con-
templates doing away with the system
of "bell-rope signals" and introduce
ing the system of compressed air,
which has been successfully used On
the Northern Central Railway for
months. By this system all the con-
ductor has to do to ring the bell in
the engine is to press one of the sever
al buttons placed in each car.
Though it has not been officially
announced by the st. Louis, Arkansas
and Texas, General Passenger and
Freight Agent, A. S. Dodge, of that
road, will tender his resignation about
June Is, to be succeeded, as has
already been mentioned, by d. Miller,
late General Passenger and Freight
Agent of the Memphis and Little
Rock. Mr.. Dodge's resignation was
unlocked for, and is sincerely regretted
by the Cotton Belt employees, who
esteemed him very highly. 1t is said
that he will return to his early love,
the Missouri Pacific, to accept an i'm
portant position.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-06-07

may be summed up as follows: 1t is
practical Christianity; the fulfill
ment of Christ's commission to his
disciples, "Behold, / give you power
to tread on serpents and scorpions,
and over all the power of the enemy,
and nothing shall in any wise hurt
you" Luke x, 10. Christian science
CLAssIFIEs ALL DISEASE
as error, the result of ignorance or
wrong thought, and it no more thinks
of correcting that error with drugs or
any material appliance whatever, than
you would think Of correcting the bad
playing or discordant nores of q
music scholar with box of the ears or
a dose of castor oil, but you do know
that when the scholar gets a clear
perception and better understanding
of the principle of harmony, he will
by that knowledge correct his own
mistakes and be careful not to repeat
them. So it is found in Christian
science that an understanding of God
as the only life, truth, love, mind,
soul, spirit, substance and intelligence
enables us Ito the extent of our APP
prehension) to do as Jesus and His
disciples did, by the application of
the same blessed truth, to lift the
load from suffering humanity, and
this knowledge We claim to be within
the reach of all, for Jesus said:
Verify, verify, l say unto you, he
that believeth on me, the works which
| do shall he do also, and greater
ttan these shall lie do because L go to
my Father"
Hoping that 1 have met your desire
(to some extent) for a plain statement
of Christian science, | am your
obedient servant, JOSEPH ADAMS.
No. 2212 Michigan avenue, Chicago.
P. S.-The right to print this
letter in any form Except newspaper
is reserved by the author.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-06-07
A Woman and a Bow.

A chunky woman accompanied by
lame boy, walking with a crutch,
appeared in town Friday night, and
sought assistance from the authorities
to enable her to reach Clinton. She
had come from Moberly, and was
without means. The attention of the
mayor was enlisted, and all the police
officers, to man, were impressed with
the woman's story. 1t was arranged
that she should be taken care of and a
ticket on the railroad purchased for
her. The woman and the boy
under some pretext, wandered away
from the station, and were not seen
until several hours later, when officer
Gossage ran across them and a man,
on the street. The last mentioned
secured a room in a clearinghouse ON
Main street, with two beds in it, for
himself, his sister and child, and then
Gossage appeared on the scene, or
dered the man to pay for the lodging
of the woman and the boy, and leave,
and then suggested to the last two to
absquatulate early yesterday morn
ing. And they did, for no one saw
them during the day. No names
were developed.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-06-07
Pettis County Institute.

The executive committee of the
county institute met yesterday at the
high school room and made arrange.
ments for the annual teachers insti-
tute.
Superintendent w. Richardson and
Professor j. L. Holloway were elected
Joint conductors of the institute, and
Mrs NJ. V. Meet, Professor C.. C..
Parker and r. M. Scotch were
chosen assistants.
Miss Mamie Meet was appointed
organist.
Tho committee directed that the
president should correspond with
teachers of drawing, with reference to
securing for one week a teacher OF
that branch.
1t was decided to hold the institute
two weeks, beginning June 9th, and
to charge tuition Of seventy-6ve
cents q week.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-06-07
CUCUMBERS AND CHERRIE 8
The Price of Vegetables and
Fruit at Retail.

The market in vegetables and fruits
will be found to be not materially
changed from last weeks quotations.
Shipped stuff is becoming pushed out
of the way by home grown truck,
which is getting plentiful.
Of the shipped articles, cauliHower
is selling at from % to 80 cents a
head. Cucumbers bring Is cents a
pair, or three for a quarter. Beans
are 80 cents a gallon, there not being
enough home grown to quote. To-
matoes are quarter quart box, and
not crowded in the box. Peaches
sell six for nickel, and Is cents for
small measure.
In the homegrown way, the fol-
lowing prices rule: Large head let
tuce, two for FIVE cents. Potato
onions, a nickel bunch, or three for
dime. Beets, two small punches for
five cents. New potatoes, forty cents
a peck. New cabbage, ten to fifteen
cents a head. Radishes, two punches
for nickel. Peas, ten cents a gallon.
Strawberries, one dime quart box,
or three of them for twenty-five cents.
Turnips, twenty cents peck. Aspara-
gus, two punches for five cents.
Fish, no change. Young chickens,
10 to % cents, according to size. Old
hens, same as ever, two bits apiece.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-06-07

Euisances On Board Ship who KasHs
More than the Captain

More than the Captain.
"Tve shipped good many crews IL
my time" said an old vessel captain the
other evening as he sat in the tug
Office toasting bis feet at the stove and
sucking away at an old pipe. "A good
many crews, and never had any trouble
with the men but once. 1t was on salt
water, and was engaged to sail brig
from Boston to Rio Janeiro and back.
When the boys came aboard I thought
what good-looking crowd they were.
and sure enough they proved to be a.
good men as ever sailed with, with one
exception. He bothered me a good deal
He knew his business well enough and
would do what he was told, but with q
kind of a way about him that was veY
provoking, just as though he was doing
favor, and if he was told to do any
thing as like as not he would ask, as
politely as you please. if it wouldn't be
better to do so and so, but If gave him
a bit of jswing be would 60 about she
job easy enough.
well, one day one of the boys drop
ped block on the mates toes, by &C.
cident, and the mate he cussed him
pretty hard, and this BANKED LIVER
lawyer Yes, lyer, that's what he wss,
a regular sea lyer-he kind of smiles,
tickled like, and takes hold of the fellow
that dropped the block and goes down
in the fo'k'sle. Purity soon be comes up
to me and begins to argue with me
about the mate abusing the men. The
mate was as kind fellow as ever lived,
and wouldn't hurt hair of q mans
head. Well, kinder laughed at him
and said in course the mate would swear
when he got his toes smashed, but it was
no use; the more gived in the more he
jawed away, and at last ordered him
forred. The cuss smiled all over and
SEE that, accordin' to law, he has q
right to state the case and demand TO
have the crew treated properly, and
then be gives me more law in q minute
than / ever heerd before, and I got
right hot and tells him if he don't 90
forred I'll have him locked up below.
Then he seq, SEE he: Please do lock me
up if you want to- and begged me to
punish him, and I dassen't, and the cuss
nhOW Aes AOk uC WOUl0 1dNc udu Lue
hauled up for it at the first port we
touched, for he wasn't doing nothing
wrong. 1t was his watch below, and
the weather was fair, so didn't have no
excuse to order him aloft. He jawed
away until went aft to get rid of him.
.'All through that trip it was hard to
tell who was captain of that vessel, me
or him. Every day he'd come up with
some question or other, and the madden
I'd get the more he'd smile, until it is .
wonder / didn't put him in irons and
stand my chances in court for it,
well, we got through that trip at
last aud give him the sack pretty
quick. you bet. I've heard of sea-lyers
before, but if there was ever a tougher
one than that fellow I want to know it.
1 amt Altered of no mutiny, for bold
stand and the sight of revolver will
make the boys come to time; but I'd
rather ship a loose managerie than
another sea-lyer. Chicago Ns,cs.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-06-07
MOney To Loan.

We will have for the next four weeks
a large amount of money to lend in sum:
to suit, on farms and business porperty in
Sedalis, at per cent with lower com.
missions than ever before.
5-z7d&wIm- MoREY & CRAWFORD.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-06-07

have for sale one telegraph news fran
ehise which can be used BY a morning
paper in Sedalia only. The franchise runs
for all time. 1t is rare chance for some
party desiring to start morning paper in
Sedalis. The franchise viii be sold cheap
to thelright party. Address,
JJWEsr GOODWIN, Sedalia, Mo
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-06-07

-Carter's Little Liver Pills may well be
termed Perfection" Their gentle action
and good effect on the system, really make
them a perfect little pill. They please
those who use them.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-06-07


to the effectiveness of Christian science
is not in its principle which is truth,
but our understanding of that truth.
For one, / understand it but little !;
but what little | do know the wealth
of Chicago would not purchase.
From the aforementioned basis of
Christian science the following funda-
mental proposition is deduced, viz !:
"There is no life in matter" because
ellie is divine principle, mind, soul,
spirit, without beginning and without
end" Eternity, not time, expresses
the thought of life, and time is no
part of eternity, hence life cannot be
In matter. "There is no substance in
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-03-19
FIELD PEAS EoR shEeP.

How This Excellent Crop should BE-
Cultivated and How Fed.
Field peas are specially well adapted
for feeding sheep, for wool is a nitro
genous product, and the pea is we'll
adapted to its growth. Corn, as
single food, is too poor in nitrogen to
produce the best growth of wool. 1t is
for this reason that clover hay IL recom-
mended to be fed with corn Clover
and peas both belong to the class of
leguminous plants, but the pea is richer
in nitrogen. Peas and corn balance
each other-the pea being rich in that
in which corn is deficient.
When the crop is cut while green,
and when the peas are just beginning
to form in the pod, it is cured with as
much care as nice clover, and is
fed the same as hay. Is is very
nutritious, if we'll cured, as it con-
tains the nutriment of stalk and grain.
The nutriment which would have
gone into the grain to perfect it, had il
ripened, is left in the stalk. 1t is rich
in albuminods, or legumen; rs excel
lent for growing the frame and muscu-
lar system of lambs and young sheep.
and is also most appropriate food for
breeding ewes. When the crop is al
lowed to ripen so far as to give good
berry to the grain, it is cured and
threshed, and the grain and straw fed
separately. 1t is cut while the straw is
yet green, and, when nicely cured, has
feeding value about equal to common
hay, for sheep. Peas make a most ex-
cellent winter food for breeding, store
or fattening sheep. For lambs, the
first winter, they can hardly be ex-
celled. In a cool climate, it is well to
add some corn, this having more starch
and oil.
AS to the time for planting peas, the
best crop is generally produced by
early planting. The rule for oats is
good for peas. 1t is well known that
the oat crop is heavier when early
planted, and many regard the combin-
ed crop of oats and peas as most
profitable for the purpose mentioned
by our correspondent. The oats assist
in holding up the pea-vines, and rem
der the crop more easily harvested. 1t
can usually be cut with reaper, al
lowed to be cured in the gavel, and be
hauled as hay. The oat crop is also an
excellent food for sheep. This crop
must be cut when the berry of the pea
is in the dough state, without regard
to the oats. Some advise two-thirds
oats and one-third peas in seeding, but
we have found the best p oportion to
be the opposite-two-thirds peas and
= one-third oats. When put in with a
drill, use two bushels of field peas and
= one bushel of oats to the acre for seed!
and always let the seed be good.
Never SOW light oats. This combined
crop may be cut green, and fed as hay,
if desired. 1t is often planted as q
soiling crop, and produces large
amount of green food. When cured il
makes equally good winter food; but il
9 allowed to ripen, as mentioned, pro-
l duces a good yield of mixed grain
l often forty to fifty bushels to the acre
, National Lire Stock Journal
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-03-19
Depraved Appetite in Animals.

1t is a universal result of indigestion
and malnutrition in animals that the
appetite becomes excessive or depraved
and either too much food is eaten or
coarse stuff which is not food is craved.
Animals thus disordered are always
unthrifty, because they do not digest
their food and get the full benefit from
it. This remedy is very simple. Give
a brisk purgative to clear out the sys-
tenn of all undigested matter and re-
lieve the liver and follow it with one
dram each of podophyllin and pounded
Peruvian bark mixed with sufficient
molasses to smear it on the back teeth
and the tongue. Give three doses Of
the above in a week, with a bran mash
every day, and an ounce of salt in 1t.
Regular supply of salt is an effective
preventive of this trouble.-R Y.
Times.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-03-19
BABY.

Did ever baby have such eyesi
So wise,
And their hue
I'm sure in beauty far outvies
That sacred flower which Brahmans prize,
The pampas blue.
The beefn passing longs TO sip,
From each lip,
For well he knows
Those dainty arches cleft in twain
BY wedges rare OF pearly grain
Were once rose.
Gods sunlight fingers in each tress,
golden grace,
Which glorifies by its caress
Her baby face:
And her wee hands, like rose leaves IN my
clasp
For them LIES fOocsrs crave; the @orRs III
grasp,
I'm sure the world is faireF
Since she came;
Heaven seems nearer, and new transports
Thrill my frame.
o rare white soul thou gem divinely set
In native gold; thou precious amulet
Which firmly linked in loves electric chain
Clements the worlds Of rapture aud ofpain.
Frances Austin, in Chicago Times.